Old Cathedral School
OLD CATHEDRAL SCHOOL, CATHEDRAL CLOSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1205242
- Date first listed:
- 07-Sept-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Old Cathedral School
- Statutory Address:
- OLD CATHEDRAL SCHOOL, CATHEDRAL CLOSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1205242
- Date first listed:
- 07-Sept-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Old Cathedral School
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD CATHEDRAL SCHOOL, CATHEDRAL CLOSE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- OLD CATHEDRAL SCHOOL, CATHEDRAL CLOSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Truro
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 82644 44975
Details
TRURO
SW8244NE CATHEDRAL CLOSE 880-1/7/31 Old Cathedral School 07/09/92
GV II
Cathedral School, now office, and the responds of never-completed cloisters of the Cathedral. 1908 (foundation stone). Chapter house by J L Pearson; cathedral school by Frank Pearson. Roughly coursed rubble walls with freestone and granite dressings; dry Delabole slate roofs with coped gable ends; stone stack over cross wall towards rear and over returned gable end. Irregular shallow U-shaped plan. Late Gothic style. 2 storeys with 4-storey tower; unaltered elevations. East front has tower with parapet, left, with embattled stair turret on its right; a 5-window range set back in the centre and a projecting gable end with central external stack, on the right. Stair turret 1st/2nd floor has pair of pointed arched 2-light traceried windows with hoodmould linked to tower string; otherwise tower has 4-centred-arched, 3-light mullioned windows and parapet string. Middle range 1st floor has 2-light traceried and transomed windows under basket arches with hoodmoulds under a moulded eaves cornice and 6-light and 4-light transomed flat-headed windows to ground floor. West elevation has 3-window range on the left and 2-window tower on the right. 1st floor transomed windows from left have 2:7:7:3:3 fenestration of 4-centred arched lights. Ground floor has 3:4:2:4:2:1:2 fenestration of flat-headed lights, most with transoms, and depressed 2-centred arched doorway at far right. Second and 3rd floors of tower have 2 pairs of 4-light windows with 4-centred arches. South entrance front elevation is contrived out of the responds of what was to be the interior of cloisters which survive to 1.5 bays left of a wide doorway and 1 bay to the right. Above the right-hand arch can be seen the weatherings for the roof which was never built. The 1908 tower (extended above) has 2 x 5-light mullioned windows to the 3rd floor only, left and centre. INTERIOR: 2 Gothic-style granite fireplaces with hoods, 2 other fireplaces inspected and some original doors with Gothic detail.
Listing NGR: SW8264444979
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 377352
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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